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Posted on entry Ice pop ::: June 22, 2005, 01:20 PM:
For me, the media storm about this (or about that girl in Ethiopia with the lions) ranks high on my "OOPS" meter ... "Observations On Planetary Silliness". (Not the stories themselves, but the way the "news" media pick it up endlessly.)

I'm not saying all news has to be serious and depressing but even the lighter stories should inform. For New Yorkers, yes, "Avoid 17th Street because of the Snapple snafu" is news. For the rest of us, not so much.

But I guess that "PR News" is part of the price we pay for actually still having news on radio and TV.

Domendur
Posted on entry Gitmo sutra ::: June 21, 2005, 06:32 PM:
Randolph Fritz wrote:
> It occurs to me that it is a very good thing for the authors and editor of this thread that
> the defenders of the Tao te Ching are less zealous than those of bible and Koran.

Speaking as a beginning student of the Tao Te Ching, I was thinking the very same thing.

Tolerance is a wonderful thing.

For a different take on this thread, though, while one Gitmo/Gulag spin on one Taoist verse was
interesting, dozens of such "spun" verses appear (to me) to be beating a dead horse. As there
are others who seem to like them, though, stating this opinion only once will suffice to express
my lack of appreciation.

In other words ... bored now. :-)

Domendur
Posted on entry Gitmo sutra ::: June 20, 2005, 09:16 AM:
Assuming this was intended humorously, not bad but not great.
As a parody on the Tao Te Ching, it lacked the inner symmetry with the original
which would have made it a very good parody.
Still, as a means of bringing out the "darkness" of Gitmo, rather interesting.

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